THE ACQUISITION OF THE MECHANISM OF UNSELECTIVE BINDING, LF WH-MOVEMENT AND CONSTRAINTS ON MOVEMENT *
THE ACQUISITION OF THE MECHANISM OF UNSELECTIVE BINDING, LF WH-MOVEMENT AND CONSTRAINTS ON MOVEMENT *
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非选择性结合、LF WH 运动和运动限制机制的获得*
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2007
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Yoshie Kabuto
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Yoshie Kabuto
In this paper, based on an experimental study, we discuss the acquisition of LF wh-movement and the constraints on the movement. The purpose of this paper is to provide some pieces of empirical evidence for the proposal that young children know the mechanism of unselective binding, and to present support for the claim that young children know constraints regulating the locality of LF wh-movement at a very early stage of language acquisition. It has been reported in Sugisaki (1999) that Japanese-speaking children of three and four year olds know that wh-adverbial naze ‘why’ cannot appear in an island, and hence, children have the knowledge of LF wh-movement and constraints on movement. In this paper, based on the syntactic analysis by Tsai (1994) and his subsequent works, we compare two wh-phrases, naze ‘why’ and dooiu riyuu-de ‘for what reason.’ These two wh-phrases show different behavior when they appear within an island. More specifically, island effects are observed when naze ‘why’ appeared in an island, while no island effects are observed when dooiu riyuu ‘what reason’ appeared in an island. We examine when and how Japanese-speaking children acquire the differences between naze ‘why’ and dooiu riyuu-de ‘for what reason,’ and the relevant syntactic properties.